You can use the class photo roster to show photographs (where available) of users who have access to your course. This includes users with any role including students, instructors, and teaching assistants.

When you come to attach files to an entry you are submitting to Blackboard you may see a dotted line around the “attach files” box. This signifies that if you wish you may drag and drop files from your computer into the box as a faster way to attach files than browsing for them one by one.

Norwegian is now available as a language pack. In addition the Swedish, Dutch, Spanish, Portuguese, and Korean language packs have been updated.

These may be selected by individuals so that Blackboard’s features appear in that language (course materials are not translated), courses may also be set to appear in those languages, as is current practice in many of our language teaching courses.

A “deep link” is a web link that goes directly to a page within a website.

Usually if you copy a link from Blackboard it would only work if the person who follows the link is already logged in. Our deep link tool will help you to create a deep link into your Blackboard course that will work regardless of whether the person who follows the link is logged in or not.

You can also make a deep link for guest users (users who do not have accounts). Your course should have guest access enabled for the link to work. This can be useful if you wish to give a preview of your Blackboard course to colleagues outside of the University, prospective students, employers etc.

Technology Improvements

Blackboard is a java based application. With this upgrade Java will be upgraded from version 1.7 to 1.8 which is a more supportable and secure version of Java.

We have also expanded the disk capacity available to Blackboard. An extra 1.5 TB has been added for course material storage, making a total of 4.5 TB of total storage. In addition the Oracle database has been provided with an extra 500GB of capacity, making a total of 1.7 TB available. This should provide adequate storage for the next three years assuming current usage patterns.